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Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is no way of calculating how many lives he has saved. No advertising agency could have invented a better, or more effective, role model.
- Michael Specter
#Advertising
#Better
#He
#Role Model
#Way
If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing - I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight.
- Michael Specter
#Ancestors
#Believe
#Doing
#Fight
#Nature
We're all in denial from time to time. We all see things that are too painful to really deal with. But this has consequences, and the consequences of not vaccinating your children are not only just that those children are exposed to illnesses; it's that everyone else they go to school with and they hang around with are, too.
- Michael Specter
#Children
#Consequences
#Go
#School
#Time
Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.
- Michael Specter
#Biology
#Effort
#Four
#Life
#Up
There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo.
- Michael Specter
#Big
#Love
#Science
#Upset
#Vitamins
If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.
- Michael Specter
#Life
#New
#Stand
#Vintage
#War
There has never been a verified scientific report that chelation therapy, a gluten-free diet, or anything else can cure autism.
- Michael Specter
#Anything
#Cure
#Diet
#Never
#Therapy
We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten to one, and weigh, all told, about three pounds - the same as our brain.
- Michael Specter
#Brain
#Cells
#Own
#Same
#Three
Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have. It made America modern.
- Michael Specter
#Agriculture
#America
#Parents
#People
Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in objections and obstruction that, despite renewed interest on every continent, it is unlikely another will be built in the United States.
- Michael Specter
#Humanity
#Interest
#Plants
#Power
#Will
To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads or proper irrigation may be a fantasy based on the finest intentions. But it is a cruel fantasy nonetheless.
- Michael Specter
#More
#People
#Roads
#Vegetables
#World
We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.
- Michael Specter
#Birth
#Colonies
#Genes
#Mother
#Time
Daily vitamins are of no value.
- Michael Specter
#Daily
#Value
#Vitamins
When most members of a community are vaccinated, they protect those who are not by eliminating the viral reservoirs in the population. The effect is known as 'herd immunity.'
- Michael Specter
#Community
#Herd
#Immunity
#Protect
#Who
All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn't whether our food has been modified, but how.
- Michael Specter
#Corn
#Food
#Mankind
#Question
#Rice
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
- Michael Specter
#Agriculture
#History
#Our
#Seeds
#Want
We're lying ourselves into believing things are untrue, like organic food will solve all our problems, or vitamins will make us healthy, or we don't need to vaccinate our children.
- Michael Specter
#Children
#Food
#Problems
#Vitamins
#Will
Clearly, some of the reason people embrace alternatives and reject vaccines is that they are angry and mistrustful of government and of pharmaceutical conglomerates. More than that, we pay too much for health care, it's not good enough, and the system is too complex. We need alternatives.
- Michael Specter
#Angry
#Care
#Good
#Government
#Health
All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.
- Michael Specter
#Doing
#Engineering
#Food
#Powerful
#Way
It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.
- Michael Specter
#Facts
#Ignore
#People
#Vaccines
#Value
Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.
- Michael Specter
#History
#Medical
#Story
#Success
#Well
When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.
- Michael Specter
#Control
#Famous
#Food
#Grow
#Seeds
#Way
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